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The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, published during the preceding calendar year.
The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2019 calendar year. Prize winners and nominated finalists were initially scheduled to be announced by Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy on April 20, 2020, but were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , and instead announced by Canedy in a video presentation ...
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2020 Prizewinners and finalists, including bios, photos, jurors and work by winners and finalists
- Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper) A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.
- Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead Books) A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.
- The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books)
- The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination.
The Pulitzer Prizes [1] ( / ˈpʊlɪtsər / [2]) are two-dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
- United States
- Columbia University
- 1917
The Night Watchman is a novel by Louise Erdrich first published on March 3, 2020, by HarperCollins. [1] . The novel is set in the 1950s. This is Erdrich's sixth standalone novel following Future Home of the Living God.
winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Pulitzer Prize for fiction is awarded every year by Columbia University, New York City, for outstanding achievement in fiction. Preferably the work relates to life in the United States and must have been published during the award year by an American author.
